Frognerseteren
Dragon-style timber lodge on a forest hilltop, famed for apple cake, city views and a toboggan run.
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This guide to Frognerseteren, high on the forested hill above Oslo, follows the land from a humble summer dairy farm to the banker Thomas Heftye, who fell for these woods in the eighteen sixties and had a road cut through them. It turns on snow, winter and a slope that locals gave a nickname. Best heard on the terrace, with the city below and the Nordmarka forest at your back.
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